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Medium · 6.2 CVE-2022-24725 EUVD-2022-1297GHSA-446w-rrm4-r47f

Exposure of home directory through shescape on Unix with Bash

Published Mar 3, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Shescape is a shell escape package for JavaScript. An issue in versions 1.4.0 to 1.5.1 allows for exposure of the home directory on Unix systems when using Bash with the `escape` or `escapeAll` functions from the _shescape_ API with the `interpolation` option set to `true`. Other tested shells, Dash and Zsh, are not affected. Depending on how the output of _shescape_ is used, directory traversal may be possible in the application using _shescape_. The issue was patched in version 1.5.1. As a workaround, manually escape all instances of the tilde character (`~`) using `arg.replace(/~/g, "\\~")`.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ericcornelissen shescape >= 1.4.0, < 1.5.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm shescape >= 1.4.0, < 1.5.1 1.5.1 GHSA-446w-rrm4-r47f

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